Because only god could have created something as powerful as evolution.
I'd not think it something created so much as something that just is, like math or physics (although you could well say God created them); Take a universe full of atoms and shuffle about for a few billion years and you're sure to get something vaguely life-ish; that which evolves survives, that which doesn't doesn't - of course we've got evolution, because everything else is dead; and it can all be explained with statistics and simple logic.
That said; as a militant atheist I find "God made math / logic / physics / evolution" to be quite acceptable.
On the contrary; it seems like an app-based thing -- the low level network setup seems to be handled fine by DHCP, it's the stuff like automatically detecting shared files and games where it gets useful. The only thing I see where "lower than DE" would be a good idea is things like shared hardware, but I'd assume that a single standalone app could take care of that.
(I've not tried it myself, but it looks like it could be a great thing -- I wish they'd get some official kernel support though; I find it hard to trust third party modules)
Looking briefly round the source it isn't *exactly* real time; it loads the rss feed at http://www.spreadfirefox.com/download_counter.php? ff=1 , parses it, then increments from there in javascript. The automatic increment interval seems to be based on the real interval, so they shouldn't get too far off.
The entire financial sector bases its existance on Excel
So that's why the CNN stock ticker keeps showing "#ERROR!" and "#VALUE!"!. Any idea why they didn't go with a database and proper front-end in the first place?
Actually, I already have -- Whereas google and other good engines come and download my HTML every few weeks (with binary files once or twice at most), MSN viewed the HTML once then kept downloading several MB of pk3 (.zip renamed for quake) files every day...
Even before blocking bad bots, I was getting 200 hits from google for every one from any other engine, so I'm not that bothered...
It should work like a real radio. You type in the address of the station, and you hear the streaming audio. No mucking about with settings.
Get thee to shoutcast. Admittedly it's a search engine rather than a frequency dial, but IMHO that's an improvement. As I type there's 9163 stations to choose from, and once you've found something you like it is just a case to taking a note of it's URL to type in later (or use bookmarks...)
But by letting machines take care of the simple stuff, we can concentrate our efforts on the complicated things. If I took the time to be good at every basic skill, I'd die before I had time to use any of them...
or will not come to a consensus on how to design an easy to use, one click installer packaging system that doesn't require the end user to hunt down dependency after dependency
I hear there's a tool called "apt" in development - I'd suggest keeping an eye on it, it looks interesting...
Seriously; How is going out and googling / physically shopping for an installer, bringing it home, then installing (with several clicks) easier than ticking a program's checkbox and clicking "apply"?
They are similar questions, and I think they both have similar answers -- IMHO it depends where you choose to draw the line, because there's no natural border.
Maybe not any more, but the bug was reported 2 years ago; I doubt the mozilla foundation would like a joke along the lines of "how do you fix a mozilla bug? Wait until the platform is obsolete, then ignore it!"...
I've been following that bug personally, and I'm still confused as to how it could take 2 years to fix, and why they didn't use the hackaround in the meantime; for a 1.0 app to not have an icon is very embarrasing, and kept making me think the installer was corrupt:/
This is a 200Mb file that you need to send to every computer on the corp. network
Not on the intended topic, but wouldn't it be a good idea for patch rollout / program distribution / nightly ghost from central image things to use some form of P2P?
Big companies, who probably have big a** internet connections themselves, should make their wares available for direct download by standard HTTP and/or FTP...
I think you overestimate big companies - there's good reason that ftp.idsoftware.com only allows ~50 (IIRC) users with one connection each; and gamespy / fileplanet has 250 with 500 queued -- it's simply impossible to deal with several thousand users wanting ~30MB updates at once via HTTP or FTP; queueing and P2P are the only sane solutions. Given the choice between a couple of hours wait for direct download or giving a bit of upload in a swarm, I'd go with P2P every time.
Not really - if the movie owners give one seed and there's one downloader at a time, there's a little overhead more than HTTP. Two downloaders at once and their bandwidth halves -- even if people disconnect as soon as they have all the file, the upload they gave during their download still gives a massive saving over plain HTTP.
Slashdot Mirror
s/Reporters/Slashdot editors/ also applies...
I'd not think it something created so much as something that just is, like math or physics (although you could well say God created them); Take a universe full of atoms and shuffle about for a few billion years and you're sure to get something vaguely life-ish; that which evolves survives, that which doesn't doesn't - of course we've got evolution, because everything else is dead; and it can all be explained with statistics and simple logic.
That said; as a militant atheist I find "God made math / logic / physics / evolution" to be quite acceptable.
s/gay people/slashdot users/
... doh :-(
On the contrary; it seems like an app-based thing -- the low level network setup seems to be handled fine by DHCP, it's the stuff like automatically detecting shared files and games where it gets useful. The only thing I see where "lower than DE" would be a good idea is things like shared hardware, but I'd assume that a single standalone app could take care of that.
Lower level than the kernel?
(I've not tried it myself, but it looks like it could be a great thing -- I wish they'd get some official kernel support though; I find it hard to trust third party modules)
It can't be the last -- we still have to wait for the dupe to get posted :P
Maybe they'll have one really big rss feed...
Looking briefly round the source it isn't *exactly* real time; it loads the rss feed at http://www.spreadfirefox.com/download_counter.php? ff=1 , parses it, then increments from there in javascript. The automatic increment interval seems to be based on the real interval, so they shouldn't get too far off.
So that's why the CNN stock ticker keeps showing "#ERROR!" and "#VALUE!"!. Any idea why they didn't go with a database and proper front-end in the first place?
Real men take management positions within opera corp, and line up to be "next CEO"...
Even before blocking bad bots, I was getting 200 hits from google for every one from any other engine, so I'm not that bothered...
Get thee to shoutcast. Admittedly it's a search engine rather than a frequency dial, but IMHO that's an improvement. As I type there's 9163 stations to choose from, and once you've found something you like it is just a case to taking a note of it's URL to type in later (or use bookmarks...)
If it's just voices, speex would probably be a lot better
But by letting machines take care of the simple stuff, we can concentrate our efforts on the complicated things. If I took the time to be good at every basic skill, I'd die before I had time to use any of them...
Why? Is it a fundemental thing, or just that nobody seems to be able to properly implement them?
I hear there's a tool called "apt" in development - I'd suggest keeping an eye on it, it looks interesting...
Seriously; How is going out and googling / physically shopping for an installer, bringing it home, then installing (with several clicks) easier than ticking a program's checkbox and clicking "apply"?
Which reminds me -- what top level domain does the sea use?
Maybe irrelevant to the purest of CS scholars; but as a person in general I'd like to find a scientific defenition of what life is
I got that point; my reply was that I thought it was an interesting question, and worthy of discussion...
They are similar questions, and I think they both have similar answers -- IMHO it depends where you choose to draw the line, because there's no natural border.
Maybe not any more, but the bug was reported 2 years ago; I doubt the mozilla foundation would like a joke along the lines of "how do you fix a mozilla bug? Wait until the platform is obsolete, then ignore it!"...
I've been following that bug personally, and I'm still confused as to how it could take 2 years to fix, and why they didn't use the hackaround in the meantime; for a 1.0 app to not have an icon is very embarrasing, and kept making me think the installer was corrupt :/
Not on the intended topic, but wouldn't it be a good idea for patch rollout / program distribution / nightly ghost from central image things to use some form of P2P?
I think you overestimate big companies - there's good reason that ftp.idsoftware.com only allows ~50 (IIRC) users with one connection each; and gamespy / fileplanet has 250 with 500 queued -- it's simply impossible to deal with several thousand users wanting ~30MB updates at once via HTTP or FTP; queueing and P2P are the only sane solutions. Given the choice between a couple of hours wait for direct download or giving a bit of upload in a swarm, I'd go with P2P every time.
Not really - if the movie owners give one seed and there's one downloader at a time, there's a little overhead more than HTTP. Two downloaders at once and their bandwidth halves -- even if people disconnect as soon as they have all the file, the upload they gave during their download still gives a massive saving over plain HTTP.
"Geeks turn to /. for current, factual news" would be better - The relationship thing actually happened, once.